Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

10.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

11.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

12.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

13.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

14.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

15.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

18.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

19.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

21.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

22.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

23.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

25.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

26.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

27.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

28.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

29.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

30.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

31.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

32.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

34.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

35.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

36.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

37.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

39.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

41.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

42.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

43.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

44.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

46.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

48.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

49.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

50.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid